Dump-car.



No. 888,647. PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.

S. OTIS. DUMP GAR.-

APPLICATION FILED MAR.5,1906.

W0 r r e j Fill SIGNOR TO NATIONAL DUMP GAR GOMPA AUGUSTA, MAINE, A CORPORATION OF M NE.

R- I ldfi l SPENCER OTIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AS

Specification of Letters Potent,

Application filed Ketch 5, 3.9%. serial llc; 304,241.

pper ends to the upper edge of the openings by suitable hinges j, and they ere retained in closed position by any suitable lockin niea-ns, smiles a sliding bolt e door engaging a keeper h the side sills. By releasing the doors, a portion of the load ms T be dumped from the side of the oer, will e readily understood, While the remainder of ed through these openings to the height of the sides and ends of the oer, it would be impractical to discharge the load by shovelirfg except for these doors. If desired both the bottom dumping doors and the side doors may he opened at the some time and the iced discharged through both, ping doors maybe opened on one he side doors on the other side of s may permit or rers By so locating the dum To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I citizen of the United cego, in the cone nois, have invent Improvements in following is s,

v are hinged ct their 11 sPENCER Orrs, :1 States, residing at Chiof ()ookend State of liliertsin new and useful nnp-Csrs, of which the peciiicction.

o dump cars, to provide a, doing cor hovs of dumping doors so to facilitate the d g iounted onv th has for its object the load may easily arranged as ischsrge of the load. My invention in the details and combinations hereinafter compenying drawings-Figure 1 rss section of a dum mg my invention. sle-veti p car embody Fig. 2 is longitudinal on of a portion of a dump oer having my improvements applied thereto.

In the drawings {7/ represents 5 the ends of the dump car, these side'end rig built considerably higher d en de of the ordinsr T gondolaoer. By this construction 1 may meterielly lessen the length of the car, at the some time retain its loed-oarryirlg capacity. The car is provided with the usual side sills a enil i the bottom of t: e car is cly of dumping i logged in series on opposite Any suitable operbe used for raising these 'duni doors. This construction is usual and Well-known and needs no particular description.

that thesidc sill placed above the level of the hott ingdoors when the lot tion and that the hot stantially fietond level the cor, as circumstance der desirable. doors that the bottom door low the side sill end the side sill I provide at car in which the frame portion is not weakened in any manner. y desirshle feature, as in which I. aware in which it has been *roposed to provide hoth side and hoting doors, it has been found necessery to out out portions of the side or center sills, thus weakening the frame of the ing its powers of resistance to the sides and s are place hecnd porti ns e side doors shove the then the side This is an extreme;

center sills 41 M15 composed substantially entir doors '0, bein sides of the center sills.

sting mechanism of may and lowering car and lessen shocks and st 1. In adump car of the class having high side and end portion v g from end to end of the car. a end level cottom composed su entirely of lihiged dnrnp their inner ends near dumping doors being below side sills when in closed in the sides of th sills extendin ter are in closed positom of the car is subthroughout its entire It is some times impossible to the bottom dumping 011s conditions which need not be specifically referred to. in order to facilitate the discharge of the load at these times, I provide the high side portions-of the swinging doors c, openin. the sides of the car for e doors, Thesejldoors mg doors hinged. at the center sill, these the level of the position, 0 enings c csr above the side sills, outwardly swinging doors hinged at their enhigs, and means for ly swinging doors. I bQd, having high dump the load through doors, owing to veri or edges in the o 1 ice ing these outwer car of the class descri side and end portions and si from end to end of of the car entirely cor with outwardly mgs lacing formed the car, doors in the floor the reception of the beneath the side sills, and

center of the ear, and doors in the sides of the ear entirely above the side sills.

SPENCER 0031s.

doors in the sides of the ear entirely above the side sills. v

3. A car of the class described having high side and end portions and side sills extending 5 from end to end of the car, doors in the floor Witnesses:

of the car entirely beneath the side sills, said JENNIE'A. MACEDWARD, doors being hinged near the longitudinal W.-T. JONES. 

